23/03/01:Sports events
scheduled for this weekend and next week have not yet been cancelled
because of yesterday's foot-and-mouth outbreak in Louth. The Irish
Masters snooker event, All-Ireland League in rugby and league and
cup fixtures in soccer will go ahead as planned, while men's and
women's hockey competitions are also set to resume.
The All-Ireland League in rugby, with the exception of Midleton's
game against City of Derry, will resume while the Leinster Schools'
Senior Cup final between Blackrock and Terenure will go ahead at
Lansdowne Road on Sunday. The match is expected to attract in excess
of 15,000 supporter

Annual Club Vs College game:
De La Salle College Churchtown were beaten by the club u18 team.

De La Salle Palmerston
Golf Classic:

The Organising committee of the annual De La Salle Palmerston Golf
Classic have been in touch to ask for a mention for their upcoming
event on Holy Thursday April 12th 2001.
This year the Golf Classic is taking place in The Grange Golf Club
Rathfarnham.
Tee off times are between: 8.00am-12.30pm and 1.30-3.30pm.
The cost per team of four is £450, which includes green fees,
evening dinner and snacks.
If you would like to enter a team, please contact either:
Kevin Fitzpatrick@ 086 2707481(m)
or
Paddy Feeney @6764755(w)

3/4/01: Congratulations to Kevin Fitzpatrick, who following his
successful role as Liason officer for the Romanian World Cup team
during the 1999 World Cup, has been appointed by the IRFU to the
role of Liason officer for the forthcoming tour of Ireland by The
All Black's in November.

The first team are
to rseume their All Ireland League programme with against
Garryowen this Saturday in Dooradoyle kick off at 2.30pm. Best
of luck to Tony and all the team.

As most of you will
be aware the IRFU are going to reduce the current AIB league
campaign by three games (due to foot and mouth crisis) and will
still have a relegation ad promotion form/to Division two of two
teams.

A sub committee is
to work out the reamaining games for each club next week. The
U-20 team are also scheduled to play the Garryowen u-20 team
before the big game, however this has to be confirmed yet.

J1's to Play Old Wesley in Metropolitan Cup
on Sunday:
Fresh from playing in the J1 league league final last Sunday, Mark
Kavanagh and the team will play Old Wesley this Sunday in the
second round of the Heineken Metropolitan cup in Kilgobbin.

J2's Qualify for League Semi Final:
Congratulations to the J2's who qualified for our first league
semi-final (since 1995 Vs Wanderers), by beating Old Wesley 13-5
in Donnybrook on Saturday.
It was a fantastic result, as we became the first team to beat
Wesley (who have won it for the last two years) in nearly three
seasons in the J2 League competition, with their team including
Chris Pim, Adrian Hawe and Colin Younger.
The semi final Vs Mary's will take place in Templeville Road, with
the date has yet to be confirmed.
However they will also be playing Old Wesley again this Saturday
in the Albert O'Connell cup in Kilternan with a 3pm Kick off

NEW RULES
REGARDING NUMBER OF REPLACEMENTS:
The Club Secretary Leonard Brodie, has receive notification from
The Leinster Branch regarding the number of replacements allowed
play in all Junior Cup competition's.
Five selected and all five are allowed play. Extra time will also
be played of 10 minutes each way when required.
The position in respect of league play offs will be advised on
each occasion.

J1 League
Quarterfinal !!!

De La Salle
Palmerston 22 Old Belvedre
16

Congratulations to
the J1's (captained by Mark Kavanagh) on beating Old Belvedre in
the J1 League Quarterfinal on Sunday in Kilternan. It's a
fantastic result for the lads (and keeps this year's unbeaten
record intact). Details on Semis Final date and draw are due over
the next few days.

J2's
Qualify for Quarterfinal's of the League?

James Brannigan
and the Managent of the J2 team are awaiting confirmation that the
Blackrock J2 team beat Clontarf's J2 in Castle Avenue in the J2
League on Saturday. If the Leinster Branch confirm this is the
correct result, this would mean our J2's would qualify for the
quarterfinal's of the league.

All in all this
season has been fantastic for us at J2, a level that we have
failed to compete strongly at for a long number of years. congrats
for the work done to date by Peter Fields, Frank Ennis and James
Brannigan.

J3's Unofficially
crowned League DIVISION 2 Champion's for this season!!

The failure of The
Royal College Of Surgeons J3 team to arrive at Kilternan on Sunday
and fulfil their fixture in the league, could have confirmed Niall
Fitzgerald's Team as champions.

With the referee
being in Kilternan, all indications are that we will be awarded
the points for the non show of the RCS team.

In true Salmo
spirit the team went out celebrating anyway, and all looked very
smart in their new fleeces and baseball caps that were very kindly
sponsored by kevin Tobin of Pk Chemicals.

J4's Get up and
running:

D.P.Smyth Cup

De La Salle
Palmerston 13 St Mary's 20

Jim Martin 1Try

Damien Deegan 2P1C

In our first match
of the season we had a very good run out in our inaugural league
match against Mary's in the DPSmyth cup being organised by
Mary's at Templeville yesterday.

19 people turned
up and all got a game in a tough but enjoyable game. This cup is
being run in two sections of four and our next game is against
Terenure in the club in two weeks time, then the following week we
play Belvedre away. Should we win both the remaining games we will
qualify for the Semi final stage.